Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment

The HA's journal for secondary history teachers

Published: 27th March 2024

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03 Editorial (Read article)

04 HA Secondary News

06 HA Update

08 The potential of secondary history to respond to the current ecological and climate crisis – Michael Riley and Alison Kitson (Read article)

13 History and the climate crisis: Bristol history teachers explore environmental history in the classroom – Kate Hawkey, Paula Worth, David Rawlings and Dan Warner-Meanwell (Read article)

22 When did humans take over the world? A big history approach to teaching climate change – Peter Langdon (Read article)

32 Learning history outside the classroom in an age of climate crisis – Helen Snelson and Adrian Gonzalez (Read article)

39 Industrialisation, energy and the climate crisis – Alison Kitson and Nebiat Michael (Read article)

46 What Have Historians Been Arguing About… climate history – Amanda Power (Read article)

50 Equestrian comrades and an octopus of mud: bringing environmental history into the classroom – Verity Morgan (Read article)

61 Cunning Plan... for teaching about climate change through the history curriculum – Nebiat Michael and Nini Visscher (Read article)

68 The place of the ‘standing people’ in the curriculum: how including histories of trees can connect the past with the present and the future – Barbara Trapani (Read article)

76 Move Me On: trainee is worried about how to deal with students’ current concerns when teaching about the history of climate change (Read article)

80 Mummy, Mummy...

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Teaching History includes a number of regular features for history teachers including What have historians been arguing about...?, Cunning Plan and Move Me On. You can access past editions of these here.

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